Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova scored a straight sets win to enter the women's doubles quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open 2017 tennis tournament here on Saturday. ....

Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by 259 runs in the first Test match at the Galle International Stadium here on Saturday. ....

India's campaign at the All England Open Badminton Championships came to an end as women's singles shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal suffered defeats in the quarter-finals here on Friday. ....

Kings XI Punjab on Friday announced Australian big-hitter Glenn Mxwell as the captain of the side for the upcoming 10th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), to be played April 5 to May 21. ....

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic eased into the second round of the BNP Paribas Open after defeating German-Latvian duo of Julia Goerges and Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-4 here. ....

India's P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal moved into the women's singles quarter-finals, but men's singles shuttler H.S. Prannoy lost in the second round of the All England Open Badminton Championships here on Thursday. ....

India skipper Virat Kohli, who was presented with the Polly Umrigar award at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) annual awards here on Wednesday, said he always wanted to be one of the top players in the world. ....

Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and H.S. Prannoy advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton Championships which began at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham on Wednesday. ....

Women deserve to be celebrated every day, not just on the International Women's Day, star Indian women wrestlers Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat said at an event here on Wednesday. ....

After Virat Kohli came down heavily on Australian captain Steve Smith for trying to elicit the dressing room's consent for using Decision Review System (DRS) in the second Test in Bengaluru, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday stood by its skipper after due deliberation and seeing the video replays. ....

Indias Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja on Wednesday became the first pair of spinners to be jointly top-ranked in the International Cricket Council rankings for Test bowlers while a poor outing in the first two Tests against Australia have pulled India skipper Virat Kohli down a rung to third among the batsmen. ....